The game's assistant producer says the number of discs was an issue.
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Kingdom hearts was really sad at the end. The darkness when Jenny dies was shocking and sad
Mine have to be last of us, Joel's daughter. Maybe it hits different when you have kids vs bot. I'll throw ff7 up there to. On the verge of looking like some sort of love triangle then bam, death
I think Dom's wife's death in Gears 2 was sadder then Dom. Dom's death in Gears 3 just felt rushed.
Hideo Kojima discussed some of the creative processes behind Metal Gear Solid 4 as the game celebrates its 15th anniversary.
Thats crazy.. 15 years before that, starfox was brand new. It seems like ages between those two, but mgs4 feels like it just happened.
Yeah, it's also pretty crazy to think there's far more time between now and MGS4 (15 years) than between MGS4 and MGS1 (9 years).
Still amazing looking and playing game ,.. about 5 hours too many cut-scenes) But still love it,..
Well it has a story to tell, and it tells it perfectly with those cut-scenes.
From Digital Foundry: "There's a wealth of PlayStation 3 exclusive games that remain locked to the system - console-exclusive titles that sold millions of copies in their day that are no longer playable natively on modern systems. Sony itself has a system in place to make them accessible at least - the streaming-based PlayStation Now - but what you're looking at are compromised versions of the original experience, marred with image quality and latency problems. However, there is a route forward, albeit to a limited audience. The open source RPCS3 emulator allows PC users to access the PlayStation 3 library, and I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots at 4K resolution at 60fps, with 16x anisotropic filtering. It's a remarkable showcase of what could be, whether it is via local emulation on a PlayStation console, or via a Bluepoint-class remaster.
At Digital Foundry, we always desire the highest possible frame-rates with new game releases but also understand this isn't always possible, but Metal Gear Solid 4 is an interesting case as it's a game that teased us with the possibility of 60 frames per second only to stomp on our dreams with its eventual release. Flash back to the Tokyo Game Show in 2005 and we saw a game trailer running flat out at 60 frames per second - a far cry from the final release, that mostly operated in a 20-30fps window. The game did run unlocked, however, so there were sparing sections where 60fps was possible - a teaser of the game it was supposed to be."
Well according to the video John has plenty of drops and non working visuals and physics and he is rocking a i9-1200k and a 3090 so if $2000+ worth of PC tech can't do it, I have very little hope for a $399-$499 console. Of course I would love to be proven wrong but there is nothing wrong with being realistic as well.
Usually a PC has a lot of overhead and wasted resources to deal with while if this was really given the time to optimize on something like a console... it could work.
If i recall, the emulation that MS uses for xb/360 on xbo started out as a pet project and was given the green light to move forward into a bigger program and got better as they created their curated list of titles.
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The test John is doing is just a brute force attempt at running PS3. And keep in mind they aren't running straight up disc code either. While I'm sure some appreciate Microsoft curated program (which is kinda similar to this only with the full backing of their inhouse engineers) what I would like to see on PS5 is actual emulation of the entire catalog. But honestly, even former ICE team members have explained why a feet like this is so monstorously difficult.
Check out this video here for more info: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
This isn't like Xbox 360 emulation at all and we should at least try to understand what a beast the SPU engines were. Like I said, I hope it does happen one day, but I can't act like I don't understand the enormous challange.
The issue here is PC is emulating an entire platform's coding through the Processor, and emulating the software to run. Sony has access to the exact coding needed to run and emulate the PS3, so the CPU overhead on PS5 will be less than what a traditional PC would need for the same task.
So theoretically it's possible, the question is are they willing to invest into resolution and frame scaling. Resolution is definitely the easier of the two and I can easily see them aiming for 1440p (2x Native PS3 resolution(s)) and possibly 4K but evening out framepacing while keeping the same framerates.
But I don't see Sony investing in double fps via software / hardware like a fps boost.
True however John used mostly default settings and when he selected the settings to apply to the games profile (rpcs3 can save custom game profiles) his experience was improved and crashes fixed.
This is common I've been using rpcs3 for a little bit and I only had 2 games running at default without issue most cases I customise to fix flicker issues or increase fps.
My rig is no where near as impressive rtx 2070 and i78700k with 32gb ram outside of ram the ps5 will outperform my rig yet I can still take many games up to 1440p at 120fps with ease.
Konami should have put the money they wasted on the last Contra and Metal gear survive on a MGS4 remaster. Or a whole series remaster for the PS4 and XB. It would have actually made them more money.
Those references dont really apply anymore. At that time, sure. Like referencing bluray when 360 didnt support it but xbo/sx do. And MS doesnt have a problem with apple. They make quite a bit of $$ off selling to apple customers.
If they go through the trouble of remastering the game for current gen they can take out Sony references.
There is no real substantial financial gain for Sony or Konami to keeping a MGS4 remaster exclusive...but the rumored MGS remake is another story. Sony will pay up for that.
Sonny is playing a PSP with an exclusive game next to a PS3. Snake uses a DS3 to control MKii, etc.
Take those things away. You've now diluted the Kojima experience?
Damn. I really wished Sony would get this ip from konami. What a franchise
If the franchise is going to goto anyone it needs to be Kojima Productions. I don’t trust Sony or Microsoft or anyone else with it.
Sadly, Konami are set in their ways and won’t sell their IPs to anyone.
Sony really needs to just buy Konami's dormant IPs. Surely Konami would be open for the right deal.
This is what Sony could and should have offered with PS+ premium.
They should just go license RPCS3 (which may not even need licensing depending on what OSS license was used) - or hire the team behind it.
I wonder if we’ll ever see RPCS3 running on Xbox now that it runs emulators. I bet someone is looking into porting it.
Looks like they could use it (I'm no expert by a long shot):
RPCS3 uses the GNU General Public License Version 2 (June 1991). According to the license, you are welcome to use RPCS3 and its source code for any purpose, but distributing RPCS3 requires that the source code be released and attribution given.
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Obviously they would had to remove all references to bluray in the game had they actually proceeded to make this happen. Id bet it would be something like at least 3-4 discs though.
The good news from this means it should be possible to port to current gen consoles if they were able to get it to run without the CELL.
I do remember back then how everyone said it was only possible on the CELL reminds me of todays it's only possible on the PS5's SSD.
So porting it shouldn't be hard. A 360 is very similar to modern console and PC structure.
As much as I would love to play mgs4 again, and I still hope to, I know playing it will bring back my old school Metal Gear Online days, and I miss that part of the game so, so much. 😢
isnt this old news anyway? did they not say that Microsoft were generally more interested in Rising back in the old days?
From the mouth of Snake himself: https://youtu.be/vkdKNuzO1R...